Salvador Dali

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

So little of what could happen does happen.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.